Battle Reviews
WBL Championship Match: 1. Fracture (5-0) vs 2. Username (5-1)
Fracture won via no-show. User told me for certain that he was showing as well. He said on AIM to deduct him however many votes I liked but as long as I kept the thread open he didn’t care, so I hit him up a few times and he said he was dropping in an hour. Then he disappeared off AIM and didn’t drop anything. Reading Fracture’s verse though, I’m not surprised. Hoooly shit dude dropped dope. He dropped so many dope fat jokes it was unreal, dope verse overall. It’s a real shame User no-showed cos this coulda been HOF quality. Fracture signed out which is pretty shitty, seems like he’s got back to his best. Ah well, he won mag battler of the month so he can sign into the contendership match when ever he wants to come back.
WBL Contendership Match: 3. Urban Legend (4-0) vs 4. ouch (3-0)
Some shiesty shit went down in this. Ouch dropped his verse, Urban Legend dropped his verse. A few votes came in and then ouch edited his verse. A couple of people claimed that ouch bit a line from some comedian women, but that was also the bar he edited out, so I’m not sure about that. I said in the rules that if you post second you can’t edit your verse after votes have been dropped, but I didn’t say what for. So I just deducted 5 votes from ouch and changed the rule to a DQ as of this week. Ouch said that he edited cos he dropped too many lines though, so I guess that’s fair enough. Anyway. This got so many votes it wasn’t eve funny. When you see a battle that is this onesided and has a huge amount of votes on it, VOTE ON SOMETHING ELSE! It’s like peeps don’t wanna cause conflict or something, so they just vote on a battle that’s a sure thing. Don’t do that, look about for battles that are close or have less amount of votes. Urban’s verse was very repetitive. His whole verse had the “you do this…cos you do that” type punches. And it was just real bland and boring. Most of it was pretty played as well. Ouch didn’t drop great, seems like he’s pretty rusty. He didn’t drop anything tight until the last 3 bars, when he dropped a nice prom date bar and a cool silencer bar. Cept that I wasn’t feeling anything, and the buttaface line I’ve seen before. He’ll have to step it up to win the title next week. Ouch won this 12-0, but he had 5 votes deducted for editing and 4 votes deducted for voting and he STILL WON. Dayum.
5. Mercules (5-1) vs 6. Sound (4-1)
Hmm. Merc dropped an alright verse, but it just had too many clichés for me to like it. Most of his verse were clichés, and while I felt the safety in numbers one, it was just overkill. That was the only bar I felt in his verse also. Sound dropped a dope head or tail bar that was nice, so if it came down to it I’d of had Sound taking this just for that punchline. But people liked Merc’s verse more so he took this.
7. Defcon_5 (4-1) vs 8. Troublesome (4-1)
I didn't think Def dropped a great verse. Until the closer there wasn't really a bar that made me think "ah nice", the closer I was feeling though. Clever bar and it hit nicely, I was feeling it. Troublesome came better to me. His two quotables were nice. Never seen the archive wordplay or the disgust wordplay surprisingly. The fortitude bar was a bit forced, but that was also pretty creative. I was feeling Troublesome more here, so he gets this. I had to drop a tie breaking vote, I'd have liked for this battle to get definitive votes but I had to do it that way.
9. Roger Glocks (5-1) vs 10. Adolf Oliverclose (4-2)
Other people were feeling this battle but I didn’t like it at all. In fact, I didn’t like 1 line in the whole battle. Usually Glocks drops at least 2 top punch worthy bars but I wasn’t feeling anything from his verse this week. Adolf didn’t drop anything really nice either. If I had to vote on this I wouldn’t really know who to vote for. But people were feeling Glocks more here so he got it.
11. Ex-Kal (5-1) vs 12. Sonny Dimez (3-1)
Kal took this pretty easy. Seemed like Sonny really rushed his verse as he had some decent concepts in it, but the wording was sloppy as hell. Kal dropped a cool cloud cover bar that I was feeling, his verse wasn’t great cept for that though. Sonny just had nothing. Kal won.
13. G (2-0) vs 14. Resin M-I-C (2-0)
This was a tight battle. Resin dropped and his verse was dope, I had it at 5 really nice punchlines. The kama sutra bar was dope, worded perfectly and it hit nice. Stem bar was good, dream speech was nice, dynamite look was tight and the nugget bar was funny as well. Nice verse overall. And G actually came pretty close to beating it. The altar boy bar was hilarious, if he coulda put in something about pedo’s then it woulda been even tighter, but it was nice as it was. The long shot bar hit hard and the bedridden bar was funny as well. The rest of his verse was quite average, but he had some other decent bars. He didn’t drop enough to beat Resin though and Resin took it 3-2, it woulda been 4-2 but he only voted on 3 battles. G signed out though which is gay, I hope he comes back soon.
15. Richard Corey (2-0) vs 16. HotDogVendorMan (4-1)
Daayum, this was disappointing. HDVM dropped and I was honestly feeling nothing in his verse, none of it seemed creative to me and it just didn’t hit really. So yeah, I didn’t like his verse but you can always rely on Corey for a nice verse, right? Right? Well, no not in this case. This old school style that he’s going back to almost fucked up on him and he very nearly caught the loss. His verse was poor except a plotline bar that I really liked. For me, it came down to that one line that got Corey the battle. It was real close though. It was 2-2 at the end but HDVM didn’t vote, so Corey got the win.
17. KnowRemedy (2-1) vs 18. Mike V (4-2)
Mike V won via no-show.
19. Nick James (1-1) vs 20. Phil Benjamin (1-1)
Eh battle. Nick dropped first and he came pretty weak cept for 1 bar. The overnighter bar, that was funny as hell. I really liked that bar, if he dropped more of that he’d be a nice battler. But he didn’t drop anything else worth noting. I wasn’t feeling anything in Phil’s verse, he just came really bland to me. Usually he drops a few creative bars, but this week I wasn’t feeling anything. The voters disagreed however, and Phil picked up the win.